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> Tahoe for example. If you can’t work from home, it’s unlikely you’ll find another job locally. That’s the situation now, but after 1000 remote tech workers m

by 205guy 6y ago

> Tahoe for example. If you can’t work from home, it’s unlikely you’ll find another job locally. That’s the situation now, but after 1000 remote tech workers move there and 500 decide not to go back to the city, 100 might pivot to lifestyle startups that employ 100-200 more. And now you have a little incubator that wasn’t there before and might grow a nice little self-sustaining eco-system. And once it gets going, it can always rely on the nice geography to attract some talent, even if the cities become huge employment centers again. In a way, I think this would be a very healthy development for these tourist towns. They are too dependent on tourism, and even when they were prosperous before Covid, they had issues with high property prices (due to empty second homes and Airbnb) and low service wages. Having a healthy middle class independent of tourism would be great for their economic stability.

refurb 6y ago
That’s where i was heading with my question. I’m wondering if these folks have a plan B if asked to go back to the office. If so, that’s great and we could see some pretty interesting changes to the demographics of small cities. If they don’t have a plan B, well... that’s not good.
- ryandrake 6y ago
  I’m in exactly this situation. Wife and I talk daily about whether we should roll the dice and move to a less inexpensive rural or vacation town and just hope my employer decides to continue WFH. So far we are too chicken to pull the trigger but we have the down payment all ready to spend if I ever grow a pair. Work has been pretty cagey about what post-pandemic is going to look like. Nobody is outright saying we’re 100% coming back to office or we’re definitely going optional WFH forever. It’s this uncertain “wait and see” that keeps us from pulling the trigger on Tahoe or Redding or somewhere else way out there and less expensive. If they ever make a clear decision: “WFH is optional for all employees” we put our house for sale that day.

by 205guy 6y ago

refurb 6y ago

That’s where i was heading with my question. I’m wondering if these folks have a plan B if asked to go back to the office. If so, that’s great and we could see some pretty interesting changes to the demographics of small cities. If they don’t have a plan B, well... that’s not good.

ryandrake 6y ago
I’m in exactly this situation. Wife and I talk daily about whether we should roll the dice and move to a less inexpensive rural or vacation town and just hope my employer decides to continue WFH. So far we are too chicken to pull the trigger but we have the down payment all ready to spend if I ever grow a pair. Work has been pretty cagey about what post-pandemic is going to look like. Nobody is outright saying we’re 100% coming back to office or we’re definitely going optional WFH forever. It’s this uncertain “wait and see” that keeps us from pulling the trigger on Tahoe or Redding or somewhere else way out there and less expensive. If they ever make a clear decision: “WFH is optional for all employees” we put our house for sale that day.